(Jul 30, 2009, 02:13 PM)prudens Wrote: If my game servers went down this long of a time, I'd lose a lot of business and loyal customers.

Maybe they're not that loyal then if they leave over a bit of server downtime. It's not like anybody with any sense is going to just stop using MyBB because the servers went down for a few hours. I was on a site that was down for 10 days, still just as popular, life went on. phpBB got hacked, they were down for about a week, life went on. MyBB's server's gone down, it'll be up again soon enough, life will go on.

Thing about Twitter is that's managed by Ryan Loos who's in the same timezone as Chris

(Jul 30, 2009, 10:11 AM)prudens Wrote: MyBB is a great piece of software, but it has major major flaws in support, API documentation, and community.

Wrong, support is awesome, labrocca kicks the devs' asses at support most of the time. xD Now the docs are something that's lacking, if they had a clear doc of the functions, then that would make writing plugins a hell of a lot easier. Community is also awesome, I remember when they had around 30k posts, and look where the official community is now.

They are loyal because vBulletin never fails without a backup plan though. myBB is awesome too man, don't get me wrong. Idk about IPB though, never liked the layout.

Imagine for a minute vBulletin's whole support site and forums collapses without warning for 12 hours, and millions of business customers are waiting in line for technical support, you think they'll wait 12 hours? Maybe... but that's because it's vBulletin. I don't think you can compare anybody to vBulletin. They are a monopoly almost.

I've never changed my statement. I said I'd lose loyal customers if my server went down for a long time in the first statement, and I repeated that in my second statement. No such thing as loyal, because if you don't offer a dedicated service, somebody else will, and loyal/non-loyal alike will just leave.